Seriously. Each time I have to do something in elasticsearch I'm constantly trying to reason why the creators went about it like this. Yeah hey let's serialize some nested JSON object that contains no less than 2,000 brackets.

Me too. I spent years complaining about databases and all the structure and rules and inflexibility. It was initially great to go to NoSQL backends where suddenly you're free. Now I really miss them :(

Well, at least I can do simple query with SQL and Elasticsearch and on Hive.

I really miss being able to make arbitrary where clauses to adjust to feature changes.